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Colorado set to add 600 megawatts of wind power projects

Colorado's wind-power market and industry are posting strong performances in 2013, according to executives.

There are plans for more than 600 megawatts of new wind farms by four Colorado utilities — a 26 percent increase in generation.

"That is probably $1 billion in investment," Sarah Cottrell Propst, executive director of the trade group Interwest Energy Alliance, said at the Colorado Energy Forum on Tuesday at the University of Denver.

The state already has 2,300 megawatts of wind generation, and utilities are looking to add to that number.

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